Edmund Crispin Quotes
Where there are cottages, there will be tots also, squatting pensively in the dust or moving unsteadily about, absorbed in the tremendous adventure of proceeding unaided from one point to the next.
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year's Eve in San Francisco.
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Here's my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, because if they look at the name on the credit card and then they look at the name on the book jacket, then there's this look of such profound sympathy for you that you had to resort to this. It really is withering.
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When high school students ask to spend their afternoons and weekends in my laboratory, I am amazed: I didn't develop that kind of enthusiasm for science until I was 28 years old.
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I usually sleep just a few hours a night.
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It's just a theory really, but I have always thought that your physical surroundings can shape your voice and personality.
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It is said that the West had a global policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid. There isn't a global Islam.
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But it is a hard, it's a hard profession teaching acting.
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There have been so many great moments in golf that you even forget some of them.
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To open yourself up and open your heart, it's a scary thing in life, let alone a movie.
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I'd pretty much given up hope of being published, so I just wrote the book I wanted to read.
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As a dancer running around the world, I always questioned whether that's what I wanted to do.
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Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It's because I understand short attention spans.
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Tcl long ago fell into the Forth trap, and is now trying desperately to extricate itself (with some help from Sun's marketing department).
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I think that the loss of the house call has been the biggest blow to the art of medicine in this century. Not only has the patient lost this precious attention, but the physician has not found a replacement for the lost intimacy.
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The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present.
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I grew up Catholic, and when you've grown up, and these belief systems have been presented to you at a young, impressionable age, I don't know that you can shake them. Even if your rational mind tells you something else, sometimes they're so deeply ingrained that they are with you for the rest of your life.
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The Texas thing is such a big deal because whenever I see Texas in a TV show, they always show slow-moving cattle and cowboys with the hats. I wanted to show that Texas isn't a stereotype.
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There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast.
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I learned so much about recording and about singing on records from Ken Nelson.
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Flying was great. You have to think fast. You have to develop intuition about the physics of air moving quickly over a surface.
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The day a character becomes predictable is the day a writer should think about moving on - because the reader certainly will.
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Where there are cottages, there will be tots also, squatting pensively in the dust or moving unsteadily about, absorbed in the tremendous adventure of proceeding unaided from one point to the next.